Re: Parents, do your due diligence on vaccination! There are serious risks!!

It looks as though Elle MacPherson is banging fraudulent quack and disgraced ex-doctor Andy Wakefield. The benefits of being an anti-vax celebrity clearly transcend the financial, although it looks like both parties are poised to make bank on this here union.

__________________"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis

Mothers with high levels of the pesticide DDT in their blood during pregnancy are more likely to bear children who develop autism, according to a study of blood samples from more than one million pregnant women in Finland.

The World Health Organization estimates that globally, one in 160 children has autism. Any case of autism is likely due to a number of factors, including genetics and other environmental exposures.

Although the authors stress that the findings do not prove that autism is caused by DDT — whose use has been banned in many countries for decades over concerns about its effects on wildlife— it is the first such association using a direct measure of exposure to the pesticide. Researchers who investigate links between environment and disease say that further studies are needed to determine the mechanism, if any, by which DDT exposure could trigger autism.

A couple notes: DDT is still in use in South Africa- homes are sprayed- as well DDT may be used outside the US for coffee and mango production. Half-life is 2-15 years.

While the spammer and malware accounts mostly disseminated anti-vaccine messages, the Russia-linked ones played both sides.

Most of the anti-vaccine tweets repeated well-known but long-discredited rumors, such as those that vaccines cause autism or contain dangerous amounts of mercury. Others accused pharmaceutical companies of caring only about profits, not children.

Pro-vaccine tweets from the same accounts argued that vaccines saved lives. Some said they should be mandatory. Some were insulting, such as “You can’t fix stupidity. Let them die from measles, and I’m for #vaccination.”
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Other tweets promoted class hostility, saying the elite get “clean vaccines” while normal people did not.

Yet others appeared designed to appeal to the audience for conspiracy websites like Infowars. One claimed that vaccines were part of the world domination plan of the Illuminati secret sect.

Re: Parents, do your due diligence on vaccination! There are serious risks!!

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Originally Posted by Henry1122

I just viewed the video, and it's amusing to me since I don't have confidence in paradise or damnation, it is safe to say that you are attempting to contrast me with a fundie...

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Though [privileged anti-vax mothers] view themselves as rebelling against “the system,” the truth is that they are merely submitting to a different system, characterized by deeply valued fantasies including the illusion of control of the health of their children and the radical uniqueness of their children, almost always in conjunction with ignorance of science, medicine and statistics.

"Vaccination is one of the most cost-effective ways of avoiding disease — it currently prevents 2-3 million deaths a year, and a further 1.5 million could be avoided if global coverage of vaccinations improved," WHO said in a statement.

The effects of what WHO called "vaccine hesitancy" are already significant. For example, cases of measles have surged 30 percent worldwide in recent years, despite an effective vaccine that can prevent it. WHO noted that some countries that were close to eliminating the disease have seen a resurgence.

Please humanity, let's not make this one of our list of accomplishments, bringing back diseases.

Re: Parents, do your due diligence on vaccination! There are serious risks!!

Smallpox is harmless childhood illness, chunks. It's also natural, and therefore inherently good. We should take those smallpox samples languishing in American and Russian bioweaponry labs and turn them loose. Think of all the fun parents and children will have at smallpox parties where uninfected kids are exposed to infected kids so that everyone can develop wholesome, all-natural antibodies.

On a different note, I've jokingly/derisively referred to anti-vax celebrities as "deities," but it turns out to be not that funny at all! Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, who's made multiple appearances in this here thread, is basically Jesus.

Re: Parents, do your due diligence on vaccination! There are serious risks!!

Stormy, death belts cause cancer, autism and diabetes. Just check out ChuckF's posts in this very thread. In addition, mandatory death belt legislation takes away the rights of parents--the true experts--to decide what's best for their own children. Such laws are actual, literal Nazism.

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It a sign of privilege to live in a society where a disease has been nearly eradicated by vaccination. Indeed, nothing says “privilege” quite like refusing the same vaccines that an impoverished mother in a developing country would trudge five miles to get for her child.

No sooner did the privilege disappear — destroyed by anti-vaxxers themselves whose choices have ushered back a deadly public scourge — then the anti-vaxxers folded. It was fun when they were just immoral freeloaders who exposed other people’s infants and immunocompromised children to injury and death. It’s no longer fun when their own children face the very same risk of injury and death they were willing to countenance for other mothers’ children.

Happy #SuperBowlSunday America! Whether you’re into the game, the commercials, or the snacks, the #SuperBowl is always better w/ public health. If you practice food safety and moderation, get vaccinated, clean, cover & contain, and don’t drink and drive, then everyone wins! (Emphasis added.)